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Ivan the Terrible |
 | | Ivan IV, called Ivan the Terrible, Tsar of Muscovy, was the son of Vasily III Ivanovich, grand duke of Muscovy, by his second wife, Helena Glinska. |
 | | Ivan meditated the regeneration of Muscovy, and the only men who could assist him in his task were men who could look steadily forward to the future because they had no past to look back upon, men who would unflinchingly obey their sovereign because they owed their whole political significance to him alone. |
 | | Ivan's generals (he himself rarely took the field) were generally successful at first, and bore down their enemies by sheer numbers, capturing scores of fortresses and towns. |
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